In a little bit of good news for Android fans, Stuff Magazine has recently named the HTC Hero – the “Gadget of the Year” for 2009. Pretty impressive, but at the same time exciting due to the fact that it has beat the overhyped iPhone 3GS.
“The revolutionary touchscreen smartphone, which is based on Google’s Android system, received the honour for its innovative take on social networking, slick multi-touch interface and superior multimedia skills.”
Of course, the iPhone was not left out entirely and did take the “Phone of the Year” award. But moving on and getting back to Android, according to Fraser Macdonald, who is the “expert judge and also Editor for Stuff;
“With the HTC Hero, we’ve finally got a phone that fully exploits the potential of the Android OS to be as clever and as sexy as the iPhone.”
It seems to me that Android is looking better and better with each day.
[via dailymail.co.uk]
October 8th, 2009 at 6:29 am
It's definitely the only worthy opponent to the iPhone. Nice to know I got the right one.
October 28th, 2009 at 1:23 am
As a US Sprint customer, my options have been mostly limited to WinMobile, Blackberry, and Palm. Not interested in blackberry … although i currently own a Palm Centro … although it is a reasably good phone, i have not been suitably impressed with the OS or freeware apps . Yes i said it FREEWARE. There … WinMobile had the market cornered! My mogul was a wonderful little computer … despite the frequent need for soft resets … but a really cruddy phone. When i read about Android i got all excited … but … alas no phones on the Sprint network.
Enter the HERO …
My heart is all a twitter and anxiously awaiting Oct 11 … hoping to learn all i can about android before then … so i can get my little hands dirty!! Share your review with me at http://www.HTC-Hero.com a site for HTC Hero fans.
February 4th, 2010 at 3:03 am
informative